{"title":"Ed Saye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMFA, Slade, 2009\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd Saye is an important visionary artist – attuned to the collective unconscious with almost prophetic sensitivity. His work has evolved with rare coherence since graduating in 2009. Figures moving through liminal light – half asleep or wide awake – new dawn or an apocalypse? Players caught between scripts. The colour hums between reverence and recoding, hyperreal, radiant – the saturation turned just past natural, where pigment behaves as energy. Studio In View Award winner 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI make paintings of hippie-like dudes doing everyday things. These dramatic, fantasy scenarios, with highly saturated colours and dramatic light, are inspired as much by high art as videogame culture. The figures – mid-swing, mid-drink, idle – inhabit dreamy, fragmented worlds. They keep going, even when the meaning of what they're doing has thinned or disappeared. I'm interested in that persistence.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1054\/0135\/2524\/collections\/Ed_db0f266833003a16ab67a79978b68965.webp?v=1783589506","url":"https:\/\/www.newbloodart.com\/collections\/ed-saye.oembed","provider":"New Blood Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}